Founded in 1975, Facets Multi-Media, located at 1517 W. Fullerton Avenue, Chicago, 60614 Facets Multi-Media is the largest conservator dedicated to the exhibition, distribution & education of foreign, independent & classic cinema. Programs include: Facets Cinematheque, Facets Rentals, Facets Film School, Facets DVD label and Facets’ Children’s Programs which organizes Facets’ Chicago International Children’s Film Festival, Facets Kids Film Camp, and year-round screenings & workshops for schools groups & families. In the Cinematheque, Facets screens 100 films a year as well as hosting tributes, retrospectives and premieres of films created by artists across the globe. Facets mission is to present and preserve high quality, multi-cultural cinema for diverse audiences and to offer seminars, classes, and a broad spectrum of educational and cultural programs for adults and children.
Facets’ Chicago International Children’s Film Festival is the largest annual festival of films for children (ages 2–16) in the world, programming 250 films and videos from 40 countries. With 25,000 children, adults and educators and over 100 filmmakers, programmers and celebrities each year, the Festival showcases the best in culturally diverse, value affirming new cinema for children and is one of the only Academy Award qualifying children's film festivals.
Facets’ Children’s Programs don’t end with the Festival! Throughout the year, Facets organizes year-round screenings for school groups and families; Facets Kids Film Camp, teaching children film theory, aesthetics, basic production skills, and critique; and special Take One! Workshops in various aspects of film production and film theory.
For more than 30 years, Facets Children’s Programs and the Chicago International Children’s Film Festival have set new standards for what children’s festivals can achieve by continually raising the bar for quality children’s programming.
Film critic Roger Ebert calls Facets “a temple of great cinema.”
Famous quotes containing the words chicago, children, film and/or festival:
“If you have any information or evidence regarding the O.J. Simpson case, press 2 now. If you are an expert in fields relating to the O.J. Simpson case and would like to offer your services, press 3 now. If you would like the address where you can send a letter of support to O.J. Simpson, press 1 now. If you are seeking legal representation from the law offices of Robert L. Shapiro, press 4 now.”
—Advertisement. Aired August 8, 1994 by Tom Snyder on TV station CNBC. Chicago Sun Times, p. 11 (July 24, 1994)
“Face your own ambivalence about letting go and you will be better able to help you children cope with their own feelings. The insight you gain through your own acceptance of change will bolster your confidence and make you a stronger college parent. The confidence you develop will be evident to your child, who will be able to move away from you without fear.”
—Norman Goddam (20th century)
“The average Hollywood film star’s ambition is to be admired by an American, courted by an Italian, married to an Englishman and have a French boyfriend.”
—Katharine Hepburn (b. 1909)
“Marry, I cannot show it in rhyme, I have tried; I can find no rhyme to “lady” but “baby”Man innocent rhyme; for “scorn,” “horn”Ma hard rhyme; for “school,” “fool”Ma babbling rhyme; very ominous endings. No, I was not born under a rhyming planet, nor I cannot woo in festival terms.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)